Weekend Reflections

1. Saturday was the Ladies Tea. Jennifer told me there were over fifty ladies that attended our event and many of them were not from Community Hope. I saw the decorations and they looked amazing. The ladies did a garden theme and it looked great. Rhonda Minner filled in as our speaker and did an amazing job. We have some amazing ladies at our church that organized this event. Way to go!


2. Got hang out with some amazing guys Saturday night in Des Moines and ate some good steak at Texas Road House. Yum!


3. Sunday was another amazing day at Hope. Our worship team rocked the house. I love the new version of 'It is Well' by Todd Fields. Great song! We wrapped up our series on Fearless talking about the 'fear of the end.' We covered what Jesus had to say about end times and how we are not to be troubled by what we see in our world. Instead, the church's mission is to expand the kingdom. Jesus used the parable of the talents to illustrate this by teaching us that when things get tough we are not supposed to hide our gifts, abilities and resources but instead we are to go out into the world and use what God has given us. Jesus made it clear that the Gospel would be preached to all the world and then the end will come. That's His plan, so lets get to work!


4. Sunday night was full of meetings. We had a great Sunday School meeting with all our teachers. We are heading into the next quarter in a couple weeks at Hope University with some great seminars. I will be teaching one on the Holy Spirit. In August we are going to have Family Sunday School. This will be an opportunity for parents and kids to sit together and worship as a family It should be lots of fun. After the Sunday School meeting was over we went right into a leadership meeting with our department heads. What a great team we have!